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Show 15.27 CIST OF WOOL IN MAIS SUIT IS EXPERT S ASSERTION Canadian Gives) Reason For( High Price of Fleece; Says Condition Will Continue j j I PRINCE ALBERT. Sask.. March 23. There is $5.27 worth of wool in a suit bf clothes that now costs from $65 up. This is the statement of W. W. Thompson, director 6f co-operative organizations or-ganizations of tho Saskatchewan de partmenl of agriculture. Mr. Thompson is nbt prepared to say in view of the high cost of labor, increased rents and business expenses that clothiers and tailors are profiteering. profiteer-ing. What he does say i$ that the high prices paid to farmers for wool are not responsible for the high cost of clothes. .... The high price or wool, Mr. Thompson Thomp-son points out, id due, to the wool shortage caused by.'ljhe war in the world's wool markets. This shortage, he predicts, will be felt for ten years and high prices wll.continue during lhat period. But thej sheep business in Canada Is, rapidly Recovering from the blow dealt It l)ytho tariff years ago. ? Though the hig hoards of bonanza range days have disappeared, small farmers have gone into sheep raising so extensively, cspcollflly in the mixed fanning ccntry noih of the old wlioni holt 'llnntr tli fimmrlinn Nation al Railway, that lodajj.the sheep population pop-ulation of Canada is alflarge as it ever was. . "The cost of wool," aid Mr. Thompson, Thomp-son, "in an 'all-wool' suit selling from $65 to S75 is ?5 27 for j:ood grade wool and $7.37 for the venf finest western wool. For a man weighing 1.75 pounds three and a half yardsof cloth arere-: arere-: quired. The weight of the cloth ranges rrom ten to eighteen 'ounce's a yard. At three and a half yads to the suit, the cloth in the cntirefgarihent would weigh forty-nine ounocs or slightly over three pounds. "In the manutactuM of 'all-wool worsted cloth, it requires one ail a quarter pounds of scoured wool to produce pro-duce one pound of cloth. So to make all the cloth In the suif it would take sixty-one and" one-fourth ounces of scoured wool. Scoured-wool sells on the Boston market at frbm 70 cents to! $1.90 a pound. The finer the wool, the! higher the price. "Between the coarsest and the finest wool there is a medium grade known as 'eights blood.' Thistis the goneral purposo wool suitable for the manufacture manufac-ture of men's and women's dress goods. This grade of vool Is selling in Boston at $1.25 and $1.36 a scoured pound, which, at ?1.3G is equal to 8Vs cents an ounce. As sixty-two ounces is required to make an('6ntire suit, the cost of the wool In tife'sult is only $5.27. |